Lena Meyer-Landrut speaks openly about depression and relapse

2023 was a challenging year for Lena Meyer-Landrut. The singer was first injured in a riding accident and suffered a double fracture of the sacrum, and at the end of the year she appeared in the emergency room. The musician had to struggle not only physically, but also mentally, as she now revealed.

Lena Meyer-Landrut had already indicated at the end of the year that the year had been very stressful emotionally for her: “November and December gave me peace again, but maybe that was a good thing, dive deep and then: think , reflect and enter the next year with new thoughts, new energy and new courage,” she wrote in a post on Instagram.

Now the 32-year-old spoke about it more clearly in the YouTube documentary ‘Making Loyal’. The music video for her song “Loyal to own” features a car crash that has symbolic meaning for Meyer-Landrut, as she explains: “So for me the crash is, so to speak, the relapse of my depression in December. The negative thing about the crash is that I hit the wall with it. And then I step out and free myself from it.”

The singer received a lot of encouragement for her open words. “I think it’s very beautiful and remarkable how you express your feelings in the song!”, said a user in the video. ‘Lena, you are the best! You are such a strong woman! “You are so badass, such an amazing person,” someone else wrote.

Another user also had words of praise for Meyer-Landrut: “To achieve something like this you need a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. And to express the feelings of your heart and convey them in words and then translate this into a song that makes people empathize, you need a lot of creativity, eloquence and talent. »